Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  How should educators and students be allowed to use people's work in their classroom? The way they do it now is through Access Copyright. There's a blanket licence. It's much like the licence that has been described for music. An individual person would have a lot of trouble trac

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I stated that myself. Who's going to apply these six rules? Who's going to make sure that they are being applied? Are we in a—

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  No, but who's going to—

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Just tell me who is going to enforce the six steps. Who is going to do that?

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes. It's exactly what I said before. It will have to go to court, and what I said before is that authors can't afford that.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Fair dealing as it is in this bill or as it would be used in common speech?

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Well, let's just say what it would mean to an ordinary person like me who is not a lawyer. Number one, it's fair. Number two, it would mean that some form of dealing has taken place between two sides to reach an agreement. That's what fair dealing means to the ordinary person.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I have met with Michael Geist and I have read his piece. And I've read a number of other pieces. What seems to come out of that is that although these people are saying the money will in no way be affected, it is still up to the artist. If a piece of unfairness comes into their v

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  If that $43 million is in fact intact, why are the educators going around saying that they won't have to pay any money anymore for copying--

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes, it's clear.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  They are being negatively affected by it because property is being taken away from them without their consent and without compensation. If somebody took your piano out of your house without your consent and without compensation, you would call it theft. I assume you would conside

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  We need a revised copyright bill. I do not feel that the exemption I spoke about should be passed in its present form, because it takes property away from people without compensation. That is either theft, requisition, or confiscation. Do you want to do that?

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I hear you clearly. I do not see you.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you very much, good evening. Thank you for inviting me. I address this committee from the position of an author who has been involved in publishing since the 1960s, both as writer and as publisher, and who has lived from the proceeds of writing--fees and royalties--since